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That's not normally what people mean by "jump": jumping an ICE car is using the battery of one car to power the starter motor of another to get it running (afte
by jefftk 3y ago
That's not normally what people mean by "jump": jumping an ICE car is using the battery of one car to power the starter motor of another to get it running (after which it doesn't need a battery to keep running).
- blamazon 3y agoFor me it means "no longer stranded" but I get the point. To explain the semantic ambiguity in my head, I find that ICE vehicles needing a jump often have a voltage so low (or that the battery pack or donor vehicle I'm using is anemic enough) that they need to be charged the same way, or the dead battery disconnected to allow the other battery to turn the starter motor.
- shkkmo 3y agoThat's being unnecessarily nitpicky. Anytime someone helps you get started when your starter battery is dead is close enough that people will call it a "jump". Not having jumper cables, I've "jumped" several people by hooking them up to my battery charger and getting enough charge into their battery to start their engine.